[Gllug] SUSE 9.1 vs Fedora Core 2

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Tue Sep 21 21:53:39 UTC 2004


Pip wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 Sep 2004 17:47, Steve Nelson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Because that isn't a minimum amount of effort.
> 
> 
> Absolutely. You have to do a bit of work to get it set up. Then you just leave 
> it alone.

When were you going to patch all the security holes that end up being 
discovered? And how long will that take?

>>Instead, take a 
>>minimum debian install, add the appropriate components and you've got
>>yourself an easily admin'able server in minutes :-)
> 
> 
> With lots of unnecessary stuff taking up disk, memory and CPU. Might as well 
> just go for a Windows box?

Of course. A minimum Linux install is just like a Windows box. WTF?!

SteveH
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